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1) Elementary School: I feel like I might be different from other kids.While everybody else is running around at recess screaming and laughing and having fun,I like to sit under a tree and write about what I did today, and what I saw, and what I thought about.

In the late fall of last year, I very gently broke my left thumb by catching it in a screen door handle. The door, yanked open by the Kansas wind, took my thumb with it. Too embarrassed to provide yet another anecdote proving my characteristic accident-proneness, I didn't confess what had happened until weeks later when, at a routine physical, I realized it was probably pretty bad that I still couldn't bend my thumb

Kaitlyn Dunnett: What advice can published authors give to someone who is not yet published but who is seriously considering a career as a mystery novelist? My advice is hardly original, but it is heartfelt. First: never give up if this is what you really want. Second: don’t quit your day job unless you have a spouse with health insurance. And third: don’t look for shortcuts, or for ...